Sentence examples for they were items from inspiring English sources
They were items the family once could afford, but their money now goes exclusively to necessities, like putting food on the table.
They were items experts believed the prisoners would have used creating the tunnel, chronicled in the 1963 movie "The Great Escape".
Investors snapped up distressed bank stocks like they were items on a bargain table and bid up basic-materials companies and shares of General Electric, Home Depot and Caterpillar.
X-rays also showed a variety of metal around the patient's body — keys, a cellphone and the like — but doctors figured they were items inside the pockets of a jacket she was still wearing.
Mr. Benes became so well known for collecting artifacts and turning them into art, that he developed a vast network of friends who would send him such relics – often they were items discarded by celebrities.
("That's how he talked about people, as if they were items on a menu," Catharine recalls of her cousin. " 'That one is appetizing,' or 'That one is not appetizing.' ") The director, Mark Brokaw, underlines how Catharine and her mother (played with just the right degree of fluttery greediness by Becky Ann Baker) are the inverse of Violet and Sebastian.
"They are items with the taste of couture," the 37-year-old says.
They aren't just well-designed accessories, they're items that imply intellect.
"They're items we're familiar with, they're part of our everyday lives.
"It has nothing to do with fashion — they're items that transcend trend".
Most children know how much a video game or CD cost, and they are items that children want.
